Why Sewell Avery Is Wrong

PUB. DATE

May 1944

SOURCE

New Republic;5/22/44, Vol. 110 Issue 21, p698

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Reports that Sewell Avery, the chairman of Montgomery Ward & Co., has refused to sign a contract with the company's union, in spite of orders to do so by the U.S. War Labor Board. Misrepresentation of the maintenance-of-membership clause contained in the contract, in terms of closed shop, by Avery; Discussion on the preferential union shop and provisions of the clause; Arguments of the unions for enforcement of the contract.

ACCESSION #

14672487

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